Vancouver and District Labour Council fonds. 1889-1983.

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Vancouver and District Labour Council fonds. 1889-1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606463231

The fonds consists of minute books of both regular meetings (1889-1956) and other Council Executive Board (1907-1920) of the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (VTLC), affiliated union files and subject files of the Vancouver and District Labour Council (1956-1983). Fonds also includes minutes from the B.C. Federationist (1912-1922), the Vancouver Labour Temple Company (1909-1920), the Oil Refinery Workers' Union (1918-1921) and an address book with clippings from the British Columbia Federation of Labour (CLC).

5.1 m of textual records.

University of British Columbia Library

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University of British Columbia Library

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British Columbia Federationist.

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Vancouver and District Labour Council

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In 1889 the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters called union representatives together in Vancouver to discuss the formation of a central council to organize and represent workers. Formally constituted in 1890, the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council was funded through fees levied against its affiliate union members. In 1919 the VTLC supported the formation of the One Big Union (OBU), a full-scale industrial union based on socialist policies. The backlash against radical labour organizations after ...

Vancouver Trades and Labor Council

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Vancouver, Lower Mainland Trades and Labour Council.

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British Columbia Federation of Labour

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The original B.C. Federation of Labour was founded in Vancouver in 1910 but disbanded in 1920. Re-established in 1944, it became affiliated with the Canadian Congress of Labour and consisted of industrial unions. Following an amalgamation of industrial and trade unions, the founding convention of the united B.C. Federation of Labour (CLC) occurred in 1956. From the description of British Columbia Federation of Labour fonds. 1889-1980, predominant 1962-1980. (University of British Col...

Vancouver Labour Temple Company.

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Oil Refinery Workers' Union.

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